TUPELO, Miss.—North Mississippi Medical Center recently honored Melissa Kemp with the Unit Coordinator Excellence Award.

Kemp has served as a nursing assistant and unit coordinator on NMMC’s 6 South since November 2015. She graduated from Tomahawk High School in Tomahawk, Wisconsin, in 1983. She attended the University of Wisconsin campuses in Eau Claire and Milwaukee.

She and her husband, Robert, have four children—Brittany, Ashley, Kesha and Brandon. They attend Basileia Baptist Church in Mooreville.